* enPR: līk, IPA(key): /laɪk/ * Rhymes: -aɪk

From Middle English _liken_, from Old English _līcian_ (“to please, be sufficient”), from Proto-Germanic _*līkijaną_, _*līkāną_ (“to please”), from Proto-Indo-European _*līg-_ (“image, likeness, similarity”). Cognate with Dutch _lijken_ (“to seem”), German _gleichen_ (“to resemble”), Icelandic _líka_ (“to like”), Norwegian _like_ (“to like”). VERB LIKE (_third-person singular simple present_ LIKES, _present participle_ LIKING, _simple past and past participle_ LIKED) * (transitive, archaic) To please. * 1903, A. W. Pollard (ed.), _Le Morte d'Arthur_ by Sir Thomas Malory (1485) , volume I, Bk.

From Middle English, from Old English _ġelīċ_ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse _líkr_. Cognate with _alike_; more distantly, with _lich_ and _-ly_. ADJECTIVE LIKE (_comparative_ MORE LIKE _or_ LIKER, _superlative_ MOST LIKE _or_ LIKEST) * Similar. _My partner and I have LIKE minds._ * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, _Past and Present_, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund […] and this is not a sky, it is a Soul and living Face! Nothing LIKER the Temple of the Highest, bright with some real effulgence of the Highest, is seen in this world. * (obsolete) likely; probable * South But it is LIKE the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. * Clarendon Many were not easy to be governed, nor LIKE to conform themselves to strict rules. RELATED TERMS * alike DERIVED TERMS * as like as not * -like TRANSLATIONS ADVERB LIKE (_comparative_ MORE LIKE, _superlative_ MOST LIKE) * (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples. _There are lots of birds, LIKE ducks and gulls, in this park._ * (archaic, colloquial) Likely. * 1599, William Shakespeare, _Much Ado About Nothing_, Act 2 Scene 3 DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, LIKE enough. [= Indeed, quite likely.] * (obsolete) In a like or similar manner. * Bible, Psalms ciii. 13 LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. USAGE NOTES In formal writing, such as is preferred over _like._ SYNONYMS * for example * (formal) such as TRANSLATIONS NOUN LIKE (_plural_ LIKES) * _(sometimes as THE LIKES OF)_ Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. * (Can we date this quote?), Winston Churchill on T.E. Lawrence We shall never see his LIKE again. _There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the LIKE._ _It was something the LIKES of which I had never seen before._ SYNONYMS * ilk ANTONYMS * antithesis, opposite TRANSLATIONS CONJUNCTION LIKE * as if; as though _It looks LIKE you've finished the project._ _It seemed LIKE you didn't care._ DERIVED TERMS * feel like, look like, seem like, sound like PREPOSITION LIKE * Somewhat similar to, reminiscent of. _These hamburgers taste LIKE leather._ ANTONYMS * unlike TRANSLATIONS PARTICLE LIKE Wikipedia * (colloquial, obsolete, current in Scots) A delayed filler. _He was so angry, like._ * (colloquial) A mild intensifier. _She was, LIKE, sooooo happy._ * (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty _There were, LIKE, twenty of them._ _And then he, LIKE, got all angry and left the room._ * (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb TO BE, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase. _I was LIKE, “Why did you do that?” and he's LIKE, “I don't know.”_ * 2006, Lily Allen, _Knock 'Em Out_ You're just doing your own thing and some one comes out the blue, They're LIKE, "Alright" What ya saying, "Yeah can I take your digits?" And you're LIKE, "no not in a million years, you're nasty please leave me alone." SYNONYMS * (colloquial: used to precede paraphrased quotations): be all, go USAGE NOTES The use as a quotative is deliberately informal and commonly used by young people, and often combined with the use of the present tense as a narrative. Similar terms are _to go_ and _all_, as in _I go, “Why did you do that?” and he goes, “I don't know”_ and _I was all, “Why did you do that?” and he was all, “I don't know.”_

* ilke

LIKE * (stative) like, alike, similar

LIKE (_present tense_ LIKER; _past tense_ LIKTE; _past participle_ LIKT) * like

TAE LIKE (_third-person singular simple present_ LIKES, _present participle_ LIKIN, _simple past_ LIKIT, _past participle_ LIKIT) * To LIKE. * To be hesitant to do something. _I dinna LIKE._ - I'm not certain I would like to. * To love somebody or something.

LIKE (_not comparable_) * like

LIKE * (South Scots) Used to place emphasis upon a statement. _Oo jist saw it the now, LIKE._

LIKE * absolute definite natural masculine form of lik.

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